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United States House of Representatives
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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the House are established by Article One of the United States Constitution, since its inception in 1789, all representatives are elected popularly. The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435, the House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is traditionally the leader of the controlling party. He or she and other leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conferences. The House meets in the wing of the United States Capitol. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was a body in which each state was equally represented. All states except Rhode Island agreed to send delegates, the issue of how to structure Congress was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. The House is referred to as the house, with the Senate being the upper house. Both houses approval is necessary for the passage of legislation, the Virginia Plan drew the support of delegates from large states such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, as it called for representation based on population. The smaller states, however, favored the New Jersey Plan, the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1788, but its implementation was set for March 4,1789. The House began work on April 1,1789, when it achieved a quorum for the first time, during the first half of the 19th century, the House was frequently in conflict with the Senate over regionally divisive issues, including slavery. The North was much more populous than the South, and therefore dominated the House of Representatives, However, the North held no such advantage in the Senate, where the equal representation of states prevailed. Regional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, One example of a provision repeatedly supported by the House but blocked by the Senate was the Wilmot Proviso, which sought to ban slavery in the land gained during the Mexican–American War. Conflict over slavery and other issues persisted until the Civil War, the war culminated in the Souths defeat and in the abolition of slavery. Because all southern senators except Andrew Johnson resigned their seats at the beginning of the war, the years of Reconstruction that followed witnessed large majorities for the Republican Party, which many Americans associated with the Unions victory in the Civil War and the ending of slavery. The Reconstruction period ended in about 1877, the ensuing era, the Democratic and the Republican Party held majorities in the House at various times. The late 19th and early 20th centuries also saw an increase in the power of the Speaker of the House

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Watkins Moorman Abbitt
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Watkins Moorman Abbitt was an American politician and lawyer. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from February 17,1948 to January 3,1973 and he was a top lieutenant within the Byrd Organization, the political machine named for its leader, U. S. Abbitt was born in Lynchburg, Virginia to George Francis Abbitt and he graduated from Appomattox Agricultural High School in Appomattox, Virginia in 1925. He earned an LL. B. from the University of Richmond in 1931 and he married Corinne Hancock on March 20,1937, and they had a son and two daughters who survived infancy. Upon admission to the Virginia bar, Abbitt had a legal practice. In 1931 he was elected Commonwealths attorney for Appomattox County and served from 1932 to 1948 and he also was elected member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1945. Representative Patrick H. Drewry died in office, Abbit won the election to fill the vacancy. A Democrat, Abbitt was reelected to the twelve succeeding Congresses and he was a member of the agriculture committee, and supported farm subsidies as well as fiscal conservatism and opposed increased federal intervention in state affairs. Abbitt became known for his opposition to desegregation in the 1950s. He was a delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, despite his former segregationist views, Abbitt endorsed L. Douglas Wilder, who became Virginias first black governor in 1989, and noted the influence of his children. His son, delegate Wat Abbitt Jr. noted that his father worked for free for any black church that needed his services. Abbitt survived one wife, but died from leukemia in Lynchburg and he was survived by a widow, son and two daughters, and interred at Liberty Cemetery in Appomattox, Virginia. A park in Appomattox, Virginia is named for him and his son, Watkins Abbitt, Jr. served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1986 to 2012. 1948, Abbitt was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in an election unopposed and was re-elected in the general election unopposed. 1958, Abbitt was re-elected with 87. 15% of the vote,1964, Abbitt was re-elected after tying Independent Samuel W. Tucker in the general election. 1966, Abbitt was re-elected with 75. 3% of the vote,1968, Abbitt was re-elected with 71. 52% of the vote, defeating now-Republican Samuel W. Tucker. 1970, Abbitt was re-elected with 61. 02% of the vote, defeating Independent Ben Ragsdale, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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William S. Archer
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William Segar Archer was a politician and lawyer from Virginia who served in the United States Senate from 1841 to 1847. He was the nephew of Joseph Eggleston, born at The Lodge in Amelia County, Virginia, received a private education and graduated from The College of William & Mary in 1806. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1810, commencing practice in Amelia, there, he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1829 to 1835 and was defeated for reelection in 1834. Archer was elected a Whig to the United States Senate in 1840, there, he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations from 1841 to 1845 and of the Committee on Naval Affairs from 1841 to 1843. He was also a key member of the committee who drafted the Missouri compromise on which he exerted great influence, after being defeated for reelection by Robert M. T. Hunter in 1846, Archer resumed practicing law until his death at The Lodge in Amelia County and he was interred in the family cemetery at The Lodge. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, William S. Archer at Find a Grave

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Richard S. Ayer
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Richard Small Ayer was a U. S. Born in Montville, Maine, Ayer attended the common schools, Ayer farmed and worked as a merchant for several years. During the Civil War, Ayers enlisted in 1861 in the Union Army as a private in Company A, Fourth Regiment and he was later promoted to first lieutenant and was mustered out as a captain on March 22,1863, for disability. Ayer settled in Virginias Northern Neck in 1865 near Warsaw, voters overwhelmingly ratified the new Constitution presented by the convention in 1869, and Virginia was readmitted to the Union. Later that year, voters elected Ayer as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress and he defeated Conservative Joseph Eggleton Segar as well as Independents Daniel M. Norton and George W. Lewis. Ayer served from January 31,1870, until March 3,1871, however, he was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. Former Confederate veteran and Democrat John Critcher was elected and served one term, Ayer returned to farming, as well as moved back to Montville, Maine. He later ran for election there and served as member of the State house of representatives in 1888, Ayer died in Liberty, Maine, December 14,1896. He was interred in Mount Repose Cemetery, Montville, Maine, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Richard S. Ayer at Find a Grave This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov

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Philip Pendleton Barbour
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Philip Pendleton Barbour was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the individual to serve as both Speaker of the House, and as a Justice on the Supreme Court. Appointed by President Andrew Jackson to the United States Supreme Court in 1835, Justice Barbour was a staunch pro-slavery, Jacksonian Democrat, whose tenure on the Court expedited a commitment to state sovereignty and strict constructionism. Barbour was born near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia, as the son of planter, Thomas Barbour and he was named for his ancestor Philip Pendleton, through whom he was related to politician and judge, Edmund Pendleton. The family was one of the First Families of Virginia, descended from a Scottish merchant who marries a Miss Taliaferro and made his home in nearby Culpeper County, Virginia. Like his brother James Barbour, Philip attended common and private schools before beginning formal studies under Virginia jurist, St. George Tucker in Williamsburg. Financial circumstances caused him to leave Philip in 1799 and he soon moved to Kentucky to make his fortune, where after a year reading law, he was admitted to the bar, and began practicing law in Bardstown. After another year, friends persuaded him to return to Virginia and resume his studies at William and Mary College, so in 1802, in 1804, Barbour married a local planters daughter, Frances Johnson, with whom he had one son named Sextus Barbour. Barbour practices law for eight years before he started his life as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1812 to 1814. Throughout this shift in power, Barbour remained an advocate of Jeffersonian Old Republican principles of states rights. Jefferson formed the Old Republican party in opposition to Alexander Hamiltons Federalist party, Old Republicans advocated for a limited federal government and strong state and local governments. The Constitutional interpretation of textualism that modern Justices like Justice Antonin Scalia, Barbour’s reputation for constitutional conservatism grew with his opposition to the Bonus Bill of 1817. The Bill permitted the federal funding of internal improvement projects such as building roads like that being constructed to connect Buffalo, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana, Barbour viewed federally funded internal projects as outside the sphere of Congress’ powers and therefore unconstitutional and undermining state sovereignty. His opposition to restrictions on slave states served to foment his passion for states’ rights. As a Congressman, Barbour was the first prominent politician to openly contest the constitutionality of protective tariffs, claiming the tariffs to be unjust and unconstitutional. Barbour unsuccessfully argued that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction over the case since the law banning the sale of foreign lottery tickets was not meant to affect Virginia. Therefore, the law was a rather than a national issue because the law did not need to affect all states. He also maintained that the Court had no jurisdiction because a state was a party in the case, Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828 led to the bifurcation of the Old Republican Party into the Jacksonian Democratic Republicans and the opposing National Republicans

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Herbert H. Bateman
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Herbert Herb Harvell Bateman was an American politician in Virginia. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, serving as a Republican from 1983 until his death from natural causes in Leesburg. Bateman was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on August 7,1928, however, he lived most of his life in Newport News, Virginia. A graduate of Newport News High School in 1945, Bateman went on to William, after graduation, he briefly taught at Hampton High School from 1949 to 1951, when he enlisted in the United States Air Force as a 1st lieutenant during the Korean War. Upon his return home, Bateman enrolled in the Law Center at Georgetown University and he served a short time as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals in Washington, D. C. before practicing law privately in Newport News from 1968 to 1983. During this period he worked to build a base through community activism. Bateman served as president of the Virginia Jaycees and National legal counsel for the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, Bateman was elected to the Senate of Virginia for 14 years, representing a portion of Newport News. He was originally a Democrat, but became a Republican in 1976, in 1982, he was elected to succeed Paul S. Trible, Jr. as the representative for the 1st District in the United States House of Representatives. While in the House of Representatives, Batemans voting record was moderate by Southern Republican standards and he was a strong supporter of controlling government spending. However, he was active on defense issues. Since Newport News was a center for work, he strongly supported military spending. He also served his constituents as a member of such as the Virginia Jaycees, Peninsula United Way. In 1990, he was diagnosed with lung and prostate cancer, in 1995, he suffered a heart attack, but was able to recover. He had surgery to remove cancer from his lung in 1998. He was diagnosed with a cancerous lymph node in January 2000, Bateman died on September 11,2000 from natural causes. He was in Leesburg, Virginia at the time for a golf tournament and he was serving out the remainder of his ninth term at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife, Laura, and two children, a son and daughter and his son, Herbert H. Bateman Jr. presently serves on the Newport News City Council as Vice Mayor and on the Peninsula Airport Commission. Daughter, Laura Margaret Bateman, is the principle of Bateman Consulting, both his papers from his time as a state senator as well as his papers from his time in Congress can be found at the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary

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Thomas H. Bayly
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Thomas Henry Bayly was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Virginia. He was the son of Thomas M. Bayly, born at the family estate called Mount Custis near Drummondtown, Virginia, Bayly attended the common schools as a child and went on to study law at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1829. Admitted to the bar in 1830, he practiced law in Accomac County, Virginia and he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1836 to 1842 and was appointed brigadier general of the 21st Brigade in the Virginia Militia in 1837 which he served as until 1846. Bayly was elected judge of the Superior Court of Law and Chancery in 1842, in 1844, he left that post when he was elected as a Democrat to fill a vacancy in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the House until his death in 1856, acting as chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means from 1849 to 1851 and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1851 to 1855. He died on June 23,1856 at his estate, Mount Custis, near Drummondtown, Virginia, Bayly also has a cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D. C. The University of Virginia Art Museum is housed in the Thomas H. Bayly Building,1844, Bayly was first elected to the U. S. House of Representatives with 54. 5% of the vote, defeating Whig Hitt Carter. 1845, Bayly was re-elected with 53. 54% of the vote,1847, Bayly was re-elected with 52. 47% of the vote, defeating Whig John J. Jones. 1849, Bayly was re-elected with 64. 75% of the vote,1853, Bayly was re-elected with 58. 93% of the vote, defeating Independents Louis C. H. 1855, Bayly was re-elected with 79. 09% of the vote, defeating Independents Robert L. Montague, Richard Lee Turberville Beale, Joseph Eggleston Segar, biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Works by or about Thomas H. Bayly at Internet Archive Thomas H. Bayly at Find a Grave

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Richard L. T. Beale
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Beale was born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland County, Virginia. He attended two private schools, Northumberland Academy and Rappahannock Academy, before attending Dickinson College in Carlisle. He studied law and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1837, two years later, he was admitted to the bar and established a law practice at Hague, Virginia. Beale was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress, however, he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1848. Upon the secession of Virginia in 1861, Beale accepted a commission in the cavalry as a lieutenant in the 9th Virginia Cavalry. He was soon promoted to captain and then major, and placed in command of Camp Lee, near his hometown of Hague, on the lower Potomac River. Being commended for his intelligence and excellent judgment, he served under Col. W. H. F. Rooney Lee in the 9th Virginia Cavalry in what became the Army of Northern Virginia. When Lee was promoted to general, Beale was advanced to the rank of colonel on September 15,1862 and given command of the regiment. In December 1862, he led a bold expedition throughout the countryside near the Rappahannock River, Beales service in 1863 earned him several written commendations and praises. On April 16, he won the praise of Maj. Gen. J. E. B, stuart for repelling the threatened raid of Maj. Gen. George Stonemans Federal cavalry division, capturing several prisoners during a week of nearly continual fighting. During the Gettysburg Campaign, Beale led the 9th Virginia in a charge on Fleetwood Hill at the Battle of Brandy Station in June and he participated in Stuarts subsequent ride around the Army of the Potomac and the raid through Maryland and Pennsylvania. He participated in fighting at Gettysburgs East Cavalry Field in early July. He briefly assumed command of Rooney Lees brigade during fighting at Culpeper Court House and participated in the Bristoe, in March 1864, he made a forced march to intercept Union Col. Ulric Dahlgren and his raiders. A detachment of his 9th Virginia Cavalry successfully ambushed the Federals and these controversial papers discovered by Beales troopers may have been a factor that influenced John Wilkes Booth in his decision to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Beale led his regiment during the Overland Campaign, and captured two Union flags at the Second Battle of Reams Station during the Siege of Petersburg. In August, upon the death of John R. Chambliss, Beale was assigned to command of Chamblisss brigade and it was not until February 6,1865, that he was finally promoted to brigadier general. He led the brigade through the end of the war and he was wounded and captured at Appomattox Station on April 9,1865, and was paroled on April 27 at Ashland. î After the war, Beale resumed his political career during Reconstruction. He was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Beverly B. Douglas and he was reelected and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from January 23,1879 to March 3,1881

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Andrew Beirne
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Andrew Beirne was a Congressman from Virginia. Beirne was born in Dangan, County Roscommon, Ireland, to Andrew Beirne, Dangans Hereditary Chieftain and he received a classical education and was graduated from Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland. Beirne immigrated to the United States in 1793 and settled in Union, Monroe County and he engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. Beirne was a member of the State house of delegates in 1807 and 1808, during the War of 1812 he served as captain of a rifle company and as colonel of the Monroe County Militia. Beirne was delegate to the Virginia Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 and he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. Beirne was not a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress, Beirne died while on a visit in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama, March 16,1845, with interment in the family burying ground at Union, Monroe County, Virginia. His home at Union, known as Walnut Grove, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, biographical Directory of the United States Congress White, Edward T. “Andrew and Oliver Beirne of Monroe County. ”

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Don Beyer
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Donald Sternoff Don Beyer, Jr. /ˈbaɪər/, is an American businessman, diplomat and politician who has served as the United States Representative for Virginias 8th congressional district since 2015. Beyer owns automobile dealerships in Virginia and has a record of involvement in community, political. From 1990 to 1998 he served as the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia during the administrations of Democrat Doug Wilder. His partys nominee for Governor in 1997, he lost to Republican Jim Gilmore, from 2009 to 2013, he served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In 2014, Beyer announced his candidacy for the U. S. House of Representatives seat for Virginias 8th congressional district held by the retiring Jim Moran. Beyer won the June 2014 Democratic primary with 45% of the vote, Beyer was born in the Free Territory of Trieste, now Trieste, Italy, the son of U. S. Army officer Don Beyer and his wife, Nancy. The oldest of six children, he was raised in Washington, in 1968 he graduated from Gonzaga College High School, where he was salutatorian of his class, in 1972 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College, magna cum laude, in economics. Beyer was a Presidential Scholar in 1968, and was a National Merit Scholarship winner and he graduated from a winter Outward Bound course at Dartmouth College in January 1971, and attended Wellesley College that year as part of the 12 College Exchange program. After college Beyer began working in his fathers Volvo dealership, Beyer is a past chairman of the National Volvo Retailer Advisory Board. In 2006, he served as chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association and he served as a member of the board of Demosphere International, Inc. a leading soccer registration software provider. He was also a member of History Associates, which bills itself as The Best Company in History. He has received awards and honors, including the Grand Award for Highway Safety from the National Safety Federation. Wheat, Jr. Award for Service to Virginians with Disabilities, the Earl Williams Leadership in Technology Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Award for 2012 from American Citizens Abroad. He chaired the board of the Alexandria Community Trust, Alexandrias community foundation, and the board of Jobs for Virginia Graduates and he is past president of the board of Youth for Tomorrow, Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs residential home for troubled adolescent boys and girls. He also served on the board of the DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Jobs for Americas Graduates. Beyer was the northern Virginia coordinator of the successful Gerald L. Baliles campaign for Governor in 1985, in 1986 Baliles appointed Beyer to the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Beyer was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1989, beating Republican state senator Edwina P. Dalton. He was re-elected in 1993, beating Republican Michael Farris 54-46 percent, as Republicans George Allen and Jim Gilmore were elected on the ballot as Governor and Attorney General

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S. Otis Bland
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Schuyler Otis Bland was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and he was a teacher and a lawyer in private practice, and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative William A. Jones. He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses, while in the House, he was chair of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. The United States Merchant Marine Academy Library is named in his honor, Bland died in Bethesda, Maryland and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News, Virginia. Schuyler Otis Bland was born May 4,1872, on a farm in Gloucester County and his father, Schuyler Bland, a Confederate soldier, died a few years later. Educated at first by tutors, young Schuyler Otis entered Gloucester Academy at the age of 12 and afterwards matriculated at the College of William, during his senior year, he served as instructor in history, Latin and English. He won his Phi Beta Kappa key, but arranged his courses for the study of law, after leaving college, he taught school in Accomac County, continued the study of law, and attended a summer law course at the University of Virginia. In 1899, he passed the State bar examination, and in 1900, successful as a lawyer, he had a large private practice and served also on the legal staff of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. In 1914–15, he was vice-president of the Virginia Bar Association, when Congressman William A. Jones died, Bland received the conventions nomination as his successor. He entered Congress, July 3,1918, and was regularly re-elected until his death, only 10 members of the House of Representatives have had longer continuous service. As chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Otis Bland was largely responsible for the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 and he is also a member of the Select Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources. His wife is the former Mary Crawford Putzel of Newport News, from 1922 until 1950 Representative Bland was a member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and its predecessor, serving as chairman for 16 years. Congressman Bland is principally remembered as father of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, in announcing the selection of the name of the library, Mr. J. W. The ship SS Schuyler Otis Bland was named for him,1918, Bland was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives unopposed. 1920, Bland was re-elected with 79. 77% of the vote, defeating Republican S. P. Powell,1922, Bland was re-elected with 83. 57% of the vote, defeating Republicans George N. Wise and J. J. Jones. 1928, Bland was re-elected unopposed 1930, Bland was re-elected with 91. 04% of the vote,1932, Bland was elected into Virginias now defunct at-large Congressional district with the rest of the Democratic slate. 1934, Bland was re-elected in the 1st District with 91. 44% of the vote, defeating Socialist Arthur W. Sowalter, Independent Rowe,1936, Bland was re-elected with 80. 87% of the vote, defeating Republican William A. Dickinson and Communist Gayle. 1944, Bland was re-elected with 81. 2% of the vote,1946, Bland was re-elected with 74. 97% of the vote, defeating republican Johnson

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Theodorick Bland (congressman)
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Theodorick Bland, also known as Theodorick Bland, Jr. was a physician, soldier, and statesman from Prince George County, Virginia. He became a figure in the formation of the new United States government. Bland was born in Prince George County in 1741 to a prominent family in colonial Virginia and his parents were Theodorick Bland of Cawsons and Frances Elizabeth Bland. His mother was the child and heir of Capt Drury Bolling and Elizabeth Meriweather of Kippax. His grandfather, Richard Bland, had married Elizabeth Randolph, daughter of William Randolph of Turkey Island and his uncle, Richard Bland, his fathers first cousin Peyton Randolph, and his second cousin Thomas Jefferson would precede him in the Congresses. At the age of 12, Theodorick Bland, Jr. was sent to Great Britain for education and he studied first in Yorkshire, then went to Scotland to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating as a doctor in 1763. That year Bland returned to Virginia and began a medical practice and he married Martha Daingerfield in 1768 and they likely settled at Kippax about that time. With the inheritance of Kippax plantation, Bland became a planter, Bland retired from medical practice in the late 1760s, in favor of farming and politics. He became active in politics before the war, serving as the Clerk of Prince George County, as the Revolution neared, Blands Whig views aligned him with the rebels. In June 1776, he became a captain in the Virginias cavalry and he rose quickly to Colonel and commanded the 1st Continental Light Dragoons, often cited Blands Virginia Horse in Revolutionary dispatches and correspondence. In the latter capacity he reported directly to Gen. Washington and he retired in 1779 from active cavalry service due to poor health, which he had suffered from his youth. At the request of Gen. Washington, Bland then served as Warden at Charlottesville over British officers taken prisoner and he also worked to keep Washingtons officers and cavalry supplied with quality horses both from his own stables and from others. As a participant in the early American horse-racing community, Bland owned a stable and had access to others among his relatives. Both mens dispatches supported that of Col Hazen and their dispatches were not interpreted accurately in sorting the British troop movements until it was almost too late. Without the accurate contributions of Bland, Ross and Hazen, a result might have befallen Washingtons army at Brandywine. Some later accounts have Blands Virginia Horse subsequently assigned to scouting duty, perhaps that shift is what led some to later speculate that Blands unit was subsequently relegated to scouting duty. It was the lack of scouting that led to the Brandywine errors, in 1779, Bland returned to Virginia, where for a few months he commanded the prisoner-of-war post at Charlottesville before being allowed to retire from military duty. He had requested this for some time from Washington due to his poor health and he had retired from his active medical practice for the same health issues in the late 1760s, nearly a decade before the war had begun

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Thomas S. Bocock
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Thomas Salem Bocock was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. After serving as an antebellum United States Congressman, he was the Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives during most of the American Civil War and he attended Hampden–Sydney College, where he befriended Robert L. Dabney and graduated in 1838. His oldest brother, Willis Perry Bocock, may have been the most successful lawyer in area, another elder brother, John Holmes Bocock, became a Presbyterian minister in Lynchburg and then the District of Columbia. Thomas Bocock married his second cousin Sarah Patrick Flood in 1846 and his second wife was Annie Holmes Faulker. He began his practice in Buckingham Court House, and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. He was also the first prosecuting attorney for Appomattox County, Virginia when it split off Buckingham County, Bocock was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, serving from 1847 to 1861. He became chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs from 1853 to 1855, in 1859, Bocock was nominated for Speaker of the House, but withdrew after eight weeks of debate and multiple ballots failed to elect a speaker. A committed slaveholder and Southern nationalist, Bocock praised Sen. Preston Brooks attack on Charles Sumner,1847, Bocock was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives with 51. 42% of the vote, defeating Whig Henry P. Irving. 1849, Bocock was re-elected with 53. 04% of the vote,1851, Bocock was re-elected with 63. 49% of the vote, defeating Whig Phillip A. Bolling. 1853, Bocock was re-elected with 51. 74% of the vote, defeating Whig John T. Wootton,1855, Bocock was re-elected with 57. 25% of the vote, defeating American Nathaniel C. 1859, Bocock was re-elected with 88. 78% of the vote, following the start of the Civil War and Virginias secession, Bocock was elected as a Democrat to the Confederate States House of Representatives in 1861, serving until the end of the war in 1865. He was a member of the unicameral Provisional Confederate Congress, as well as the succeeding First, Bocock was unanimously elected Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives, and served from 1862 to 1865. He left Richmond during the April 1865 evacuation, and later fled his home, as the war ended at nearby Appomattox Court House, Bocock owned more than twenty slaves. He did not want to pay his former slaves as workers, instead telling them he would provide food and shelter, Bocock even tried to purchase several formerly enslaved people from neighbors. The African Americans appealed to the provost marshal, who said they deserved liberal compensation, Bocock moved to Lynchburg, where he practiced law and helped form the Virginia Conservative Party. He supported President Andrew Johnson for election in 1868, and later unsuccessful Democratic Presidential candidates Horace Greeley in 1872, one of the architects of Jim Crow Laws, Bocock served in Virginias House of Delegates again from 1877 to 1879. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868,1876 and 1880 and he died in Appomattox County, Virginia, on August 5,1891, and was interred at Old Bocock Cemetery near his plantation, Wildway. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, retrieved on 2009-04-29 Thomas S. Bocock

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George Booker
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George William Booker was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, teacher, judge and justice of the peace from Virginia. Born near Stuart, Virginia, Booker attended common schools as a child, taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846, commencing practice in Patrick County, Virginia. He was elected a justice of the peace in Henry County, Virginia and was a member, Booker was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1866 to 1867 and was elected Attorney General of Virginia in 1868, serving until 1869. He was elected a Conservative to the United States House of Representatives in 1869, serving from 1870 to 1871 and afterwards resumed practicing law in Martinsville, Booker died in Martinsville on June 4,1883 and was interred there in the family cemetery. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, George Booker at Find a Grave George Booker at The Political Graveyard

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Alexander Boteler
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Alexander Robinson Boteler was a nineteenth-century politician and clerk from Virginia. Born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, Boteler graduated from Princeton College in 1835 and engaged in agriculture and he was elected an Oppositionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1858, serving from 1859 to 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was commissioned a member of General Thomas J. Stonewall Jacksons staff. Boteler died in Shepherdstown, West Virginia on May 8,1892 and was interred there at Elmwood Cemetery with his wife Helen Stockon Boteler, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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John Botts
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John Minor Botts was a nineteenth-century politician, planter and lawyer from Virginia. He was a prominent Unionist in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War, Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts and his wife Jane Tyler Botts. Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John, Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair, and they had several children. Two sons died in young, their firstborn son, Archibald Blair Botts, joined the U. S. Army and died in Mexico in 1847. Thus, only Beverly Blair Botts, Rosalie S. Botts Lewis, after admission to the Virginia bar in 1830. Botts moved to Henrico County, Virginia outside Richmond and he operated a plantation called Half Sink on the Chickahominy River in Varina Farms area about nine miles east of downtown Richmond. He used the progressive agricultural methods advocated by his brother Charles Taylor Botts in the Southern Planter, Botts also raised racehorses and practiced law, and gained the nickname Bison. Botts lost his first run for office in 1831, but won the following year. In 1835, he seemed to lose to William B, randolph, but successfully challenged the results in court. In 1836, he appeared to lose, to William N. Whiting. In 1838, voters elected Botts as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives and he gained a reputations for independent spirit as well as partisanship. For example, Botts repeatedly blamed the financial hardship caused by the Panic of 1837 on Democrats, Botts served in Congress from 1839 to 1843. He was defeated for reelection in 1842, although a slaveholder, Botts vehemently opposed extension of slavery into territories, and blamed Democrat John C. Calhoun for increasing sectional animosities by trying to annex Texas. This position was the opposite of fellow position and President John Tyler, the Botts bill, however, was tabled until the following January, when it was rejected after Botts defeat for re-election, 127−83. After this defeat, Botts continued to publish letters and articles opposing Texas annexation, Botts won election to Congress again in 1846, serving from 1847 to 1849. He was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs from 1847 to 1849, voters once again failed to reelect Botts in 1848, but he won again in 1850. Botts also served as one of six delegates represented the city of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Henrico, and New Kent in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851

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Rick Boucher
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Frederick Carlyle Rick Boucher is an American politician who was the U. S. Representative for Virginias 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011 and he is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2010 elections, while trying to be elected to a 15th term, Boucher is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently lives. He earned his BA from Roanoke College where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity and he received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He has practiced law on Wall Street initially as an associate at Milbank Tweed in the firms New York City office, prior to his election to Congress, he served for seven years as a member of the Senate of Virginia. In May 2011, Mr. Boucher joined prominent Washington law firm Sidley Austin, the Internet Innovation Alliance, an industry advocacy group, also announced that Boucher has joined as the honorary chair. Boucher was first elected to Congress in 1982, defeating 16-year Republican incumbent Bill Wampler by 1,100 votes and he was narrowly reelected in 1984, defeating Delegate Jefferson Stafford by four points, even as Ronald Reagan carried the 9th in a landslide. However, he was unopposed for a third term in 1986. Boucher remained very popular in his district even as its socially conservative tint made it friendlier to Republicans, the GOP won most of the areas seats in the Virginia General Assembly in 2001, and has held them ever since. From 2002 to 2006, he fended off three reasonably well-funded Republican challengers with relative ease, in 2002, he defeated state delegate Jay Katzen with 66 percent of the vote. In 2004, he defeated NASCAR official Kevin Triplett with 59 percent of the vote even as George W. Bush easily carried the district, in 2006, he defeated state delegate Bill Carrico with 68 percent of the vote. He was reelected unopposed in 2008 even as John McCain carried the district with his largest margin in the state and it was generally thought that Boucher would be succeeded by a Republican once he retired. In 2010 Boucher faced his strongest opponent to date in House of Delegates Majority Leader Morgan Griffith, although Boucher charged that Griffith lived outside of the 9th, it was not enough to overcome Griffiths attacks that Boucher was an ally of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Ultimately, Griffith unseated Boucher with 51 percent of the vote to Bouchers 46 percent, Boucher has been active on Internet-related legislation, including cosponsoring the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. In that role, he authored the legislation permitted the first commercial use of the Internet. His proposals to promote competition in the cable and local telephone industries contributed to the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Boucher originated the House Internet Caucus and served as its co-chairman. He also authored the Digital Media Consumers Rights Act legislation and introduced the FAIR USE Act, Boucher voted in favor of the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act, as well as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In contrast, Boucher has received a rating of A+ from the National Rifle Association and is one of the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq

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George E. Bowden
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George Edwin Bowden was a U. S. Representative from Virginia, nephew of Lemuel Jackson Bowden, born in Williamsburg, Virginia, Bowden attended a private school. He was admitted to the bar but never practiced and he served as collector of customs for the port of Norfolk from September 1879 until May 1885. Bowden was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He served as collector of customs for the port of Norfolk. He served as clerk of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from March 10,1899, until his death in Norfolk, Virginia and he was interred in Elmwood Cemetery. 1886, Bowden was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives defeating Democrat Marshall Parks,1888, Bowden was re-elected defeating Democrat Richard C. Marshall and Independent Republican Andrew Williams, winning 58. 69% of the vote. 1890, Bowden lost his bid to Democrat John William Lawson. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and this article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov

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Henry Bowen
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Henry Bowen was a Virginia lawyer and politician from Tazewell County, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U. S. House of Representatives, Bowen was the son of Rees Bowen, and nephew of John Warfield Johnston. His cousin was William Bowen Campbell and he was born at Maiden Spring, near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. He attended the schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory. He was released June 19,1865, Bowen returned to his native county and resumed farming. Bowen was elected as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1873, in 1883, he was elected as a Readjuster to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4,1883 to March 3,1885. Bowen was a candidate for renomination in 1884. He was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4,1887 to March 3,1889 and he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. In 1892, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention and he resumed agricultural interests and stock raising in Tazewell County, Virginia. Bowen died at his home, Maiden Spring, in Tazewell County, April 29,1915, biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Rees Bowen
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Rees Tate Bowen was a nineteenth-century congressman, magistrate and judge from Virginia. He was the father of Henry Bowen, born at Maiden Spring near Tazewell, Virginia, Bowen attended Abingdon Academy and later engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was appointed a general in the Virginia Militia by Governor Henry A. Wise in 1856. Bowen was magistrate of Tazewell County, Virginia for several years prior to the Civil War and was presiding judge of the county court a portion of that time. He was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1872, serving from 1873 to 1875, Bowen died at his estate called Maiden Spring in Tazewell County, Virginia on August 29,1879 and was interred in the family cemetery on the estate. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, information on Rees Bowen United States Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Dave Brat
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David Alan Dave Brat is an American economist and member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Virginias 7th congressional district since 2014. Prior to his election to Congress, Brat was a professor at Randolph–Macon College, a Republican, he serves on these House Committees, Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business. Brat defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the districts 2014 Republican primary on June 10,2014 and he defeated Democratic nominee Jack Trammell on November 4,2014. Brat was born in Detroit on July 27,1964, Brats father, Paul, was a Doctor of Internal Medicine, his mother, Nancy, was employed as a social worker in Alma, Michigan, where he was raised. His family moved from Alma to Minnesota when David, the oldest of three boys, was in junior high, Brat graduated from Park Center Senior High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. In 2006 Brat was appointed by Virginia governor Tim Kaine to the Governors Advisory Board of Economists and he has also served on the board of directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority, and on the advisory board of the Virginia Public Access Project. From 2005 to 2011, Brat worked as a legislative assistant to Virginia state senator Walter Stosch in the area of higher education. In 2006 he was appointed by Democratic governor Tim Kaine to serve on an economic advisory council. He was later reappointed by Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, in August 2011, Brat announced he was running for the Virginia House of Delegates seat for the 56th district. There was no primary, and six Republican leaders met and chose Peter Farrell, Brat ran against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination for Virginias 7th congressional district and defeated Cantor by a 12-point margin. Brat was outspent by Cantor 40 to 1, Cantor spent over $5 million, while Brat raised $200,000, Brats primary campaign was managed by 23-year-old Zachary Werrell. Brats win was a historic and stunning victory, as it was the first time a sitting House Majority Leader was defeated in his primary race since the position was created in 1899. Compared with Cantor, described as aloof, Brat was characterized as knowing how to work a crowd and he ran an anti-establishment campaign criticizing government bailouts and budget deals while frequently invoking God and the Constitution in his speeches. During the campaign, Cantor criticized Brat as a professor who had strong ties to Tim Kaine, Virginias former Democratic governor. Brat ran well to Cantors right, complaining that Cantor had a crony-capitalist mentality, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham endorsed Brats candidacy and hosted a rally with him in a Richmond suburb. Brat was also supported by radio show host Mark Levin. Some libertarian oriented groups, such as the Virginia Liberty Party, Brat received support from, and gave credit for his win to, local Tea Party groups in Virginia, but received no funding or endorsement from national Tea Party organizations. Brat has not self-identified with the Tea Party movement, matea Gold in The Washington Post stated, the fact that Brat took off without the help of those organizations now makes it harder for them to claim his victory as their own

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Elliott M. Braxton
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Elliott Muse Braxton was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the great-grandson of Carter Braxton, born in Mathews, Virginia, Braxton attended the common schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, commencing in Richmond, Virginia. He moved to Richmond County, Virginia and served in the Virginia Senate from 1852 to 1856 and he later moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1860 and continued practicing law. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Braxton raised a company for the Confederate Army and was elected its captain and he was later promoted to a major and served in the staff of General John R. Cooke. After being unsuccessful for reelection in 1872, Braxton resumed practicing law in Fredericksburg until his death there on October 2,1891 and he was interred there in the Confederate Cemetery. Braxton was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives over Republican incumbent Lewis McKenzie by a margin of 53-47%, following redistricting, he ran in the 1st district against Republican James B. Sener, this time losing by a margin of 49-51%. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, retrieved on 2008-02-13 Elliott M. Braxton

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James Breckinridge
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James Breckinridge was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U. S. House of Representatives and he also fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812. Breckinridge was born near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia and his brother was John Breckinridge and he was the great-great-great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge. He studied under tutors and during the Revolutionary War, he served in Colonel Prestons rifle regiment under General Nathanael Greene. He attended Washington College and was graduated from the College of William and he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Fincastle. He built Breckinridge Mill in 1822, to replace a mill he built in 1804. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, Breckinridge served as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates intermittently between 1789 and 1824. He took a special interest in the construction of the Chesapeake and he was then elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses. He was an associate of Thomas Jefferson in the establishment of the University of Virginia,1809, Breckinridge was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives with 56. 72% of the vote, defeating Democrat-Republican Alexander Wilson. 1811, Breckinridge was re-elected with 58. 4% of the vote, Breckinridge died at his country home, Grove Hill, Botetourt County, Virginia, May 13,1833 and was buried in the family burial plot on his estate near Fincastle. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Richard Brent (politician)
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Richard Brent was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Stafford County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both the U. S. House and the U. S. Senate and he pursued an education in law and was admitted to the bar and subsequently entered practice. Brent was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing Stafford County in 1788 and was elected to represent Prince William County, Brent was elected again to the U. S. House and served one two-year term during the 7th Congress from March 1801 to March 1803. He served in the Virginia State Senate from 1808 to 1810

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John Brown (Kentucky)
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John Brown was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War. Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and the U. S. Congress, while in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elected by the new state legislature as a U. S, John Brown was born in Augusta County, Virginia, on September 12,1757. He was a son of Reverend John Brown and Margaret Preston Brown, the son of a Presbyterian minister and schoolmaster, John was well educated, first at his fathers Liberty Hall Academy, and then at the College of New Jersey. His studies at Princeton were halted, temporarily, as a result of the approach of English troops during the American Revolutionary War, Browns role during the Revolutionary War is unclear. The family tradition was that Brown served under General George Washington, two years after he left the College of New Jersey, Brown enrolled at The College of William & Mary where he studied law. In the fall of 1780, his studies were interrupted by the War, Brown continued to study law by reading it while working in the office of Thomas Jefferson near Charlottesville, Virginia. Brown married Margaretta Mason on February 21,1799 and they had five children together, only two of whom lived to adulthood, Mason Brown was born in Philadelphia. Orlando was born at Liberty Hall, Alfred was born at Liberty Hall on February 23,1803 and died on January 29,1804, a second Alfred was born on May 9,1804 and died on July 30,1805. Euphemia Helen, their youngest child and only daughter, was born on May 24,1807 and she died of a calomiel overdose on October 1,1814. Brown became politically active after being admitted to the bar and he was elected to the Virginia state Senate, succeeding William Christian, where he served from 1783 to 1788. He was succeeded by William Russell, the Virginia legislature sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788. Constitution became effective, Brown was twice elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, as a Congressman representing Virginia, Brown introduced the petition for Kentucky Statehood. When Kentucky became a state in 1792, he resigned from the House on June 1,1792, on June 18, the Kentucky legislature elected him to the United States Senate for a term ending in 1793. He was re-elected twice and served until 1805 and he was President pro tem during the Eighth Congress. During Browns Senate service, he moved to Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1805, Brown was defeated for re-election to the Senate and retired to Liberty Hall. He remained active in a number of matters for the remaining thirty years of his life. In 1800, he purchased a ferry crossed the Kentucky River at Frankfort

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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the House are established by Article One of the United States Constitution, since its inception in 1789, all representatives are elected popularly. T

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Republican Thomas Brackett Reed, occasionally ridiculed as "Czar Reed", was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House from 1889 to 1891 and from 1895 to 1899.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller confer with President Barack Obama at the Oval Office in 2009.

Watkins Moorman Abbitt
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Watkins Moorman Abbitt was an American politician and lawyer. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from February 17,1948 to January 3,1973 and he was a top lieutenant within the Byrd Organization, the political machine named for its leader, U. S. Abbitt was born in Lynchburg, Virginia to George Francis Abbitt

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Watkins M. Abbitt, Sr., Memorial Park in Appomattox, Virginia

William S. Archer
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William Segar Archer was a politician and lawyer from Virginia who served in the United States Senate from 1841 to 1847. He was the nephew of Joseph Eggleston, born at The Lodge in Amelia County, Virginia, received a private education and graduated from The College of William & Mary in 1806. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1810, comme

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Richard S. Ayer
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Richard Small Ayer was a U. S. Born in Montville, Maine, Ayer attended the common schools, Ayer farmed and worked as a merchant for several years. During the Civil War, Ayers enlisted in 1861 in the Union Army as a private in Company A, Fourth Regiment and he was later promoted to first lieutenant and was mustered out as a captain on March 22,1863,

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Richard Small Ayer

Philip Pendleton Barbour
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Philip Pendleton Barbour was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the individual to serve as both Speaker of the House, and as a Justice on the Supreme Court. Appointed by President Andrew Jackson to the United States Supreme Court in 1835, Justice Barbour wa

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Philip Pendleton Barbour

Herbert H. Bateman
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Herbert Herb Harvell Bateman was an American politician in Virginia. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, serving as a Republican from 1983 until his death from natural causes in Leesburg. Bateman was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on August 7,1928, however, he lived most of his life in Newport News, Virginia. A gr

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Herb Bateman

Thomas H. Bayly
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Thomas Henry Bayly was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Virginia. He was the son of Thomas M. Bayly, born at the family estate called Mount Custis near Drummondtown, Virginia, Bayly attended the common schools as a child and went on to study law at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1829. Admitted to the bar in 1830, he

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Fitzsimons

Richard L. T. Beale
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Beale was born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland County, Virginia. He attended two private schools, Northumberland Academy and Rappahannock Academy, before attending Dickinson College in Carlisle. He studied law and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1837, two years later, he was admitted to the bar and established a law practice at Hague, Vi

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Richard Lee Turberville Beale

Andrew Beirne
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Andrew Beirne was a Congressman from Virginia. Beirne was born in Dangan, County Roscommon, Ireland, to Andrew Beirne, Dangans Hereditary Chieftain and he received a classical education and was graduated from Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland. Beirne immigrated to the United States in 1793 and settled in Union, Monroe County and he engaged in mer

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Andrew Beirne

Don Beyer
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Donald Sternoff Don Beyer, Jr. /ˈbaɪər/, is an American businessman, diplomat and politician who has served as the United States Representative for Virginias 8th congressional district since 2015. Beyer owns automobile dealerships in Virginia and has a record of involvement in community, political. From 1990 to 1998 he served as the 36th Lieutenant

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Don Beyer

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Beyer as Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein

S. Otis Bland
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Schuyler Otis Bland was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and he was a teacher and a lawyer in private practice, and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative William A. Jones. He was reelected to the

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Schuyler Otis Bland

Theodorick Bland (congressman)
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Theodorick Bland, also known as Theodorick Bland, Jr. was a physician, soldier, and statesman from Prince George County, Virginia. He became a figure in the formation of the new United States government. Bland was born in Prince George County in 1741 to a prominent family in colonial Virginia and his parents were Theodorick Bland of Cawsons and Fra

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Theodorick Bland

Thomas S. Bocock
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Thomas Salem Bocock was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. After serving as an antebellum United States Congressman, he was the Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives during most of the American Civil War and he attended Hampden–Sydney College, where he befriended Robert L. Dabney and graduated in 1838. Hi

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Thomas Bocock

George Booker
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George William Booker was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, teacher, judge and justice of the peace from Virginia. Born near Stuart, Virginia, Booker attended common schools as a child, taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846, commencing practice in Patrick County, Virginia. He was elected a justice of the peace in Hen

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George William Booker

Alexander Boteler
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Alexander Robinson Boteler was a nineteenth-century politician and clerk from Virginia. Born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, Boteler graduated from Princeton College in 1835 and engaged in agriculture and he was elected an Oppositionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1858, serving from 1859 to 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War, h

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Alexander Boteler

John Botts
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John Minor Botts was a nineteenth-century politician, planter and lawyer from Virginia. He was a prominent Unionist in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War, Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts and his wife Jane Tyler Botts. Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 18

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Botts's home in Culpeper, Virginia, Botts and family on porch, 1863.

Rick Boucher
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Frederick Carlyle Rick Boucher is an American politician who was the U. S. Representative for Virginias 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011 and he is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2010 elections, while trying to be elected to a 15th term, Boucher is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently lives. He ear

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Rick Boucher

George E. Bowden
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George Edwin Bowden was a U. S. Representative from Virginia, nephew of Lemuel Jackson Bowden, born in Williamsburg, Virginia, Bowden attended a private school. He was admitted to the bar but never practiced and he served as collector of customs for the port of Norfolk from September 1879 until May 1885. Bowden was elected as a Republican to the Fi

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George Edwin Bowden

Henry Bowen
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Henry Bowen was a Virginia lawyer and politician from Tazewell County, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U. S. House of Representatives, Bowen was the son of Rees Bowen, and nephew of John Warfield Johnston. His cousin was William Bowen Campbell and he was born at Maiden Spring, near Tazewell, Tazewell County, V

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Henry Bowen

Rees Bowen
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Rees Tate Bowen was a nineteenth-century congressman, magistrate and judge from Virginia. He was the father of Henry Bowen, born at Maiden Spring near Tazewell, Virginia, Bowen attended Abingdon Academy and later engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was appointed a general in the Virginia Militia by Governor Henry A. Wise in 1856. Bowen was magistr

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Rees Bowen

Dave Brat
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David Alan Dave Brat is an American economist and member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Virginias 7th congressional district since 2014. Prior to his election to Congress, Brat was a professor at Randolph–Macon College, a Republican, he serves on these House Committees, Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business. Br

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David Brat

Elliott M. Braxton
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Elliott Muse Braxton was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the great-grandson of Carter Braxton, born in Mathews, Virginia, Braxton attended the common schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, commencing in Richmond, Virginia. He moved to Richmond County, Virginia and served in the Virginia

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Elliott Muse Braxton

James Breckinridge
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James Breckinridge was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U. S. House of Representatives and he also fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812. Breckinridge was born near Fincastle, Botetourt Co

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James Breckinridge

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February 22, 1825 letter from Thomas Jefferson to General Breckinridge.

Richard Brent (politician)
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Richard Brent was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Stafford County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both the U. S. House and the U. S. Senate and he pursued an education in law and was admitted to the bar and subsequently entered practice. Brent was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing Stafford County in 1788

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Richard Brent

John Brown (Kentucky)
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John Brown was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War. Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and the U. S. Congress, while in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elect

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Rep. Davis (left) (R-VA) joined Reps. Ben Cardin (at lectern) (D-MD) and Roscoe Bartlett (center) (R-MD) in calling for a study of homeland security needs of the National Capital region, including Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.